The Sales Call

Meeting the Invisible Fence dealer

We called our local Invisible Fence dealer the very next day, and
he quickly arranged a meeting at our house to meet
the dogs and assess the situation. (This particular dealer
also sold inground sprinkler systems, but on this visit
he was wearing his Invisible Fence hat.)

When Don arrived, he sat down with us and explained
how hidden fence systems generally worked and what
the specific advantages of the Invisible Fence brand pet containment system
were. The system has three parts to it:

a computerized control module,

a buried wire (the hidden fence), and

a special dog collar.

The system was fairly expensive in our case
because we needed two dog collars, but we went ahead and
ordered the system. We needed to keep our dogs safe,
after all. We also opted for
a second, standalone control module to keep the
dogs out of our living room (more on that later).

The Invisible Fence computerized control module

The Invisible Fence dog collar

The hidden fence wire, exposed on a conventional fence

Installation of the wire was included in the price,
but our situation was a bit different than most of
Don's customers. Normally,
people have the wire buried along their property line,
hence the "hidden fence" moniker. We already had a
wooden fence, however, and so the dealer
would simply run most of the the wire along the bottom of the fence instead
of burying it in the ground.